{"id":931,"date":"2006-12-25T05:40:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T13:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2007-01-11T03:56:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T11:56:01","slug":"merry-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color:green\">Merry<\/span> <span style=\"color:red\">Christmas<\/span> to all!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday and hopefully got all the presents they had wished for.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, I just got this link from Digg: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pc.ibm.com\/us\/notebooks\/thinkpad\/x-series\/tablet\/sitelet.html?ipromoID=hpa00018\">Lenovo &#8211; ThinkPad X60 Tablet<\/a> and this new tablet has some pretty neat features over the previous X41 tablet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MultiView\/MultiTouch indoor\/outdoor viewable touch screen<\/li>\n<li>High resolution SXGA+ screen<\/li>\n<li>802.11n MIMO WiFi<\/li>\n<li>Embedded WWAN<\/li>\n<li>Mobile docking solution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>*DROOLS*<\/strong> The SXGA+ screen <ins datetime=\"2007-01-11T11:55:29+00:00\">(1400&#215;1050)<\/ins> is awesome! It&#8217;s an optional feature, but if I got the X60 Tablet, I would definitely get this screen. The default is XGA (1024&#215;768) which has been what all the X series (12.1&#8243; screen) has always touted, however 1024&#215;768 is a bit lacking. Everything else on my X31 rocks. I just wish the screen had a better resolution. I&#8217;ve even sent in customer feedback asking for a better screen. Bill actually told me a month back that the new Thinkpad tablet was getting a better screen, but when I searched, i wasn&#8217;t able to find any information on their website, so I thought it was just a fluke he saw.<\/p>\n<p>The additional wireless networking features seem nifty, but I&#8217;m not really that interested until it becomes more standardized.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-touch screen is also nifty. Most tablets require you use a metallic stylus pen to work where the screen has a magnet system behind it to detect where the stylus pen is. It&#8217;s not a true touch screen. With this multi-touch functionality, it allows you to use you fingers or whatever other funky object you prefer to use to interact with the screen:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/gallery\/d\/11230-1\/tablet_touchscreen_240x220.jpg\" alt=\"lenovo thinkpad x60 tablet - multitouch screen\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I do have to say I was a bit disappointed. When I first read multi-touch, I had thought it was referring to something like the <a href=\"http:\/\/cs.nyu.edu\/~jhan\/ftirtouch\/\">Multi-Touch Interaction Research<\/a> by Jeff Han. But I guess it&#8217;s still neat that you can now interact with your fingers.<\/p>\n<p>I had tried to customize the X60 Tablet, but unfortunately the SXGA+ screen doesn&#8217;t seem to be an available option at this moment. I wonder how much that&#8217;ll add to the price given the fact that with a regular XGA screen, it&#8217;s already over $1,800.<\/p>\n<p>I really wish they&#8217;d put this better screen into the regular X-series as I don&#8217;t really care for a tablet much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Random Crap<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>I was searching for images of \u738b\u6676 (Jing Wong) in movies he produced to show my sister who he was, and I happened to fall upon this cute porcupine image:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/gallery\/d\/11228-1\/cute_porcupine.JPG\" alt=\"cute porcupine\" \/><br \/>\n(from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinazawen.com\/ggl\/2006\/5\/i1d8kncrlr.asp\">\u6742\u6587\u9009\u520a<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/men.msn.com\/articlees.aspx?cp-documentid=702593\">Things a Man Should Know: About Fatherhood<\/a> (from Digg) &#8211; a rather funny list of things dad&#8217;s should know about parenthood. Here&#8217;s a couple I thought were insightful or funny:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your child, at birth, already has a deeply complicated relationship with his mother, and, for the first year, you are only a curiosity. For a couple of years after that, an amusement-park ride. Then, a referee. And finally, a bank. <\/li>\n<li>Reason boys are better: They cannot get pregnant.<\/li>\n<li>The first time you change your son&#8217;s diaper and he pees all over you is not an accident. It&#8217;s foreshadowing.<\/li>\n<li>Let them take reasonable risks: A few scrapes in the long run are nothing compared with the scars left by hovering parents. Or tics. In preparation for risks: a Red Cross first-aid course. <\/li>\n<li>It never hurts to videotape the baby-sitter. Especially if she&#8217;s hot. <\/li>\n<li>Overalls are not only cute, they provide a convenient handle.<\/li>\n<li>Dropping food on the floor is a new and delightful skill to a one-year-old, not a deliberate attempt to annoy you. However, as small he or she might be, never underestimate an infant&#8217;s ability to project chewed food over great distances. <\/li>\n<li>Beware your child&#8217;s uncles, who will teach your kid dirty words, introduce him to liquor, and give him gifts of drums, archery sets, and possibly matches.<\/li>\n<li>It is, of course, your natural right to exert the above negative influences on your siblings&#8217; offspring.<\/li>\n<li>Lock or no, please knock before entering, as the disruption of a youth who is spanking his monkey will be twice as traumatic for you as it is for him.<\/li>\n<li>Unfortunately, those books that say motherhood makes women desire more sex are referring to women who are not your wife.<\/li>\n<li>If the real response to his question is no, try this instead: &#8220;Go ask your mom.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/gallery\/v\/misc\/watermelon-face.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/gallery\/d\/11233-2\/watermelon-face.jpg\" alt=\"carved  watermelon head\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCarved Watermelon Head (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2006\/12\/24\/watermelon-head\/\">Neatorama<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas to all! I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday and hopefully got all the presents they had wished for. Speaking of which, I just got this link from Digg: Lenovo &#8211; ThinkPad X60 Tablet and this new tablet has some pretty neat features over the previous X41 tablet: MultiView\/MultiTouch indoor\/outdoor viewable touch screen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}